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Universality for tropical and logarithmic maps

Algebraic Geometry 2026-05-27 v5 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that every toric monoid appears in a space of maps from tropical curves to an orthant. It follows that spaces of logarithmic maps to Artin fans exhibit arbitrary toric singularities: a virtual universality theorem for logarithmic maps to pairs. The target rank depends on the chosen singularity: we show that the cone over the 7-gon never appears in a space of maps to a rank 1 target. We obtain similar results for tropical maps to affine space.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2211.15719,
  title  = {Universality for tropical and logarithmic maps},
  author = {Gabriel Corrigan and Navid Nabijou and Dan Simms},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15719},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

22 pages. Comments welcome. v5: Minor changes

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